I've experienced writer's block, but never for more than a few days.
Writers and learners will write better and learn more if they understand the "why" of what they are studying.
I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
The only thing that's authentic about what a writer writes is his work.
I always want to do something I haven't done before and get to work with other actors, writers, or directors that I want to work with.
First person narrative is a very effective tool but you have to know as a writer how to make it work.
I always crave to see more stories about and by people of color, particularly new work by young black writers.
Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.
Whenever I work with different artists, I expand as a song writer, as a producer, and I always want to try and find the bridge between my world and their world.
As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention.
There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.
Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.
...writers, like priests, should have compassion...and a sensitivity to pain...
...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..